Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics points in a very different direction. Instead of snuffing out our star, ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...

If you were to take a random blob of gas and heat it to solar temperatures (roughly 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit [5,500 degrees Celsius] at the surface or over 27 million F [15 million C] in the core), ...

Under the sea, green algae have evolved a clever way to handle too much sunlight. Scientists found that a special pigment called siphonein acts like a natural sun shield, protecting the algae’s ...